All-ages: How to Build a Movement
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The document discusses the importance of diversity and inclusion within the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) movement, emphasizing the need to address age-related biases in the tech industry. It highlights the discrimination faced by older individuals and the necessity for initiatives that involve both younger and older participants in the tech sector. The authors propose various solutions for fostering engagement across all ages and advocate for a more inclusive environment in technology and software development.
All-ages: How to Build a Movement
- 1. All Ages: How to Build a Movement Deb Nicholson & Molly de Blanc
- 3. tl;dr We believe that, in order to be successful, the FOSS movement needs to be diverse and inclusive, bringing together a spectrum of people from different backgrounds and experiences.
- 4. What we’re going to cover Why we care What’s going on with age? Solutions we like
- 5. Why We Care
- 6. Fair Use from The Force Awakens, Copyright Disney
- 9. GFDL by Ildar Sagdejev from Wikipedia 2009-03-21, Beer brewing bubbles
- 10. CC.BY “Zombie Run” by mebrett on Flickr
- 12. “Diversity jolts us into cognitive action in ways that homogeneity simply does not.” From Scientific American, “How Diversity Makes Us Smarter” by Katherine W. Phillips on October 1st, 2014
- 13. “To neutralize exclusion, leaders need to proactively review the access of all groups of employees to training, professional development, networks, important committees, nominations for honors, and other opportunities. ” From Harvard Business Review, “Diversity is Useless Without Inclusivity” by Christine M. Riordan on June 5th, 2014
- 14. CC.BY_With Arms Wide Open by Gregg O'Connell
- 15. CC.BY.SA by Peretz Partensky, Power Strip on Flickr
- 16. What is intersectionality? Minorities in Tech or
- 17. Who is a minority in tech? In the US: Everyone who is not a heteronormative, white, man. In the rest of the world: I don’t know.
- 18. Who is a minority in tech? An incomplete list Gender Race/Ethnicity Background ● women ● trans ● gender queer ● non-binary ● People of Color (POC) ● First, Indigenous, Native People* ● Latinx ● people with disabilities ● non-college graduates ● non-technical education or skills ● people over age 35 ● working class
- 19. Intersectionality The mindsets, institutional policies, and behaviors that marginalize one group frequently are or are connected to mindsets, institutional policies that marginalize other groups.
- 20. Intersectionality Oppressive institutions are interconnected. But! We still need to talk about things separately sometimes.
- 21. What’s going on with age?
- 22. Tech has an age problem “I want to stress the importance of being young and technical. Young people are just smarter. Why are most chess masters under 30? I don't know. Young people just have simpler lives. We may not own a car. We may not have family. Simplicity in life allows you to focus on what's important. “ -Mark Zuckerberg, 2007, age 22/23
- 23. Tech has an age problem “People under 35 are the people who make change happen, and older entrepreneurs fail to innovate because they are falling back on old habits.” -Vinod Khosla, 2011, age 56
- 24. Tech has an age problem In 2011, Google reached a multi-million dollar settlement...with Brian Reid... Reid claimed that Google employees made derogatory comments about his age, telling him he was ‘obsolete,’ ‘sluggish,’ and an ‘old fuddy-duddy’ whose ideas were ‘too old to matter.’ Other companies...have gotten themselves in hot water by posting job listings with ‘new grad‘ in the description. In 2013, Facebook settled a case...over a job listing for an attorney that noted ‘Class of 2007 or 2008 preferred.'” Griswold, Alice. “Former Twitter Employee Sues the Company for Age Discrimination.” Slate.com. (2014)
- 25. Tech has an age problem Median employee age (2012) Facebook: 26 IBM: 37 Google: 29 Oracle: 38 Apple, Nvidia: 31 HP: 39 payscale.com
- 26. The Young (Ones) Fair Use from The Young Ones, Copyright BBC
- 27. The Young (Ones) Fair use, Koolaid logo
- 28. The Young (Ones) CC.BY.SA, Jade sleeps on the Dell, by Christopher Browns on flickr
- 29. The Young (Ones) CC.BY.SA Birthday Cake by CJ Sorg, from Flickr.com
- 30. The Young (Ones) Fair Use, Wesley Crusher from Star Trek, Copyright Gene Rodenberry
- 31. The Young (Ones) Fair Use from Harry Potter, Copyright Warner Brothers Pictures
- 32. The Young (Ones) Fair use from Hackers United Artists
- 33. The Young (Ones)
- 34. Some solutions we like The Olds Fair Use from The Golden Girls, Copyright AP Photos
- 35. Some solutions we like The Olds "Discriminating against older workers, men and women, is the one kind of discrimination that seems to be socially acceptable, especially in tech. You have to work hard to not hire anyone over 30 but just about every startup in Silicon Valley manages to do it." From a 2015 interview I conducted with 57 year-old woman who works as a systems administrator
- 36. Some solutions we like “I’m too old for this shit.” Fair Use, Danny Glover as Sgt. Roger Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon
- 37. Some solutions we like The Olds "Now it is all about how can I use my experience to help other people work on their big important projects… It is like my only use is to train people to replace me.” From a 2015 interview I conducted with 50 year-old woman who works as a software engineer at big data company
- 38. Volunteering Free software is powered by volunteers.
- 39. Volunteering Photo courtesy of Virginia State Parks. CC-BY
- 40. Volunteering Youths 55% ages 12-18 29 hours per year 64% in youth or religious organizations 250 volunteer hours (over high school) is “not impressive, but laudable.” Corporation for National and Community Service; Collegeconfidential.com
- 41. Volunteering Retirees 42% aged 65+ 96 hours / per year Many in religious orgs 10% of elderly volunteers accrue >500 hours /per year Serviceleader.org
- 42. Volunteering
- 43. Volunteering Younger people and older people like to use their time to do good.
- 44. Some solutions we like
- 45. Fair Use from The Force Awakens, Copyright Disney
- 46. Some great stuff happening to get young people involved ● Penn Manor ● OSU’s Open Source Lab & DevOps bootcamps ● Maker Days ● Scratch, Minecraft, ??? ● Kids’ Days at big FOSS conferences
- 47. Some great stuff happening to get older people involved ● Outreachy ● Opensource.com ● edX & Code Academy (& similar programs) ● Volunteering with community run conferences
- 48. Some stuff that isn’t necessarily age-specific ● Boot Camps ● Online Learning ● Meet-ups ● FOSS conferences
- 49. Some stuff that we’d like to see happening ● Ways for kids to do non-code stuff ● More places for older people to do non-code stuff; writing, accounting, event work ● More support for Moms returning to the work force ● Youth/Junior affinity groups within communities ● All ages social events at FOSS conferences
- 50. This is the Important Part Call to Action or
- 51. Fair Use from Doctor Who, Copyright BBC
- 52. Fair Use from Fringe, Copyright Fox
- 54. Questions? A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat